skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could solve Project Euler problems in Lua - aka, the easiest programming language to learn

https://projecteuler.net/

Alternatively, you could get a homeschool math textbook. They're written differently because the assumption is that the kid is going to have to teach themselves, and as such they are significantly more thorough and easy to understand. I highly recommend them. Don't get the kind that are "workbooks", those are usually trash. Find a good textbook that the kid can write in their own notebook for and sell after they're done with it. They'll learn how Ebay works, and algebra!
> It seems you're very focused on what people "oughta" pay for. But what matters is simply what people do pay for. You tell this story, but it seems very inconsistent with my experience or my understanding of pricing theory.

I don’t know who the “you” is referring to. All
I said was that in my personal experience, there have been occasions (not frequent, but it has happened) where I’ll buy a perpetual license to something for a task I use a few times a year. Because the $20 or whatever the license cost was worth the time I saved. In most cases, what I said was that if I didn’t use a piece of software after the trial expired, that was a good forcing function to figure out if it was something I find value in or not. And in most cases, the answer is going to be “I don’t need to buy this.”

I’m not at all focused on what people oughta pay for so I don’t know where you are misreading this.

I also said that for business and SaaS options like the OP article is about, things are completely different (your Copilot example). The comment I replied to was about consumer software trials and how they don’t think time limits make sense. I happen to disagree.
Probably one of the best if not the best out there. Worth every penny.
Kubernetes is only the software layer, a lot of the cost is in the hardware/infrastructure, and in the salary for those experts.
Yes, I posted that one. But this link is not paywalled.
In a car, you want to be able to operate controls with minimal eye contact, and ideally with no eye contact necessary. A touch screen is the opposite and require eye contact.

In a control room, you want the operators to be looking at the button/switch/knob they are about to operate, especially if they have warning/status lights on the button.

These are not the same thing. However, I agree that touch screen still seems like a not good idea, but for different reasons.
Do you cut off this poisoning at any point?
The context comes from the attention mechanism, not from word embeddings.
Here in Israel they just upload most of their TV content to YT, some if it is really good. They used to also stream (and archive) their news stuff, but for some reason I'm getting a 404. (You can look up Kan11 and Kan11news if you are curious, though I don't think they have translations so probably not useful if you don't speak Hebrew).

EDIT: Looks like it is only broken for me in FireFox...
Some of the category descriptions are great, eg for "Most lifelike":

Suppose you are given a task of adding some new functionality to an existing code base. You have been told that the guy who wrote it was “really smart” and that his code is of “enterprise quality”. You check out the code and open a random file in an editor. It appears on the screen. After just one microsecond of looking at the code you have lost your will to live and want nothing more than to beat your head against the table until you lose consciousness.

This entry could be that code.
Hundreds of scripts/apps to automate and track stuff over the years. The most recent is a wiki with a slightly modified Quill editor (no public repo). I use it to track the things I'm working on that day and to capture items as they come in. It doesn't offer much over something like Obsidian, but critically, a self-contained version can be kept in any repo and used by coauthors without them needing to know anything about Obsidian.

The most recent "from scratch" app is used to track my projects. I never felt the existing solutions did a good job. Writing my own let me customize it just for my needs (also no public repo, and really not likely to be interesting to anyone else).
All make sense to me! And yes for sure there was some snark in the comment you replied to. If it helps, the specific part of your comment that I felt elevated it to a higher level was the reference to their username, which was ad homimen/personal snark, whereas both theirs and the first part of your reply was snark directed at the research or the methods.

Likewise have a nice day, and thanks for the tip on the research tome! I'm definitely interested to see it :-)
You're contorting the answer in order not to answer. The blockade was put in place in response to what, when?

2005, unilateral withdrawal from Gaza

2006, Gazans peacefully went about their lives, setting up - and minding their own - businesses, made trade contacts, geared up a booming tourist industry...? No. That's not what happened, is it. I'm sure you can find a way to blame Israel for Palestinian choices, but that helps no one.

2007, blockade, out of the blue with no rhyme or reason. Just to flex, and watch the world burn.

If you care about peace, you won't do these weird contortions to explain Israel's actions. As with Hamas, Israel explains the reasons for its actions very clearly but largely boils down to "leave us alone or FAFO".
I might have skimmed too fast. Productivity seemed not defined?
IMO productivity is all about making product that get used. And profitability is how much people willing to pay to use such product.
> The thesis being there's no me there

I think the thesis is "me" is complex.
Cyprus, Bougainville and Kashmir are all part of some transnational web? Cyprus and Kashmir are recent?
Have you ever asked a LLM to calculate costs for you? This is it exactly what it looks like
Can AI tools help reduce Zoom fatigue?
Acclaimed photographer cracks Instagram in his 80s
There's actually been quite a bit of scholarship on how to draw district lines. We could certainly do better than the status quo, but it's a hard problem.
Anyone buying a house with a mortgage generally is taking a 5:1 leverage (a 5% down loan is 20:1 leverage) position on the house. Making $100k on a $200k investment, with 5:1 leverage means making 100k on a 40k investment, which isn't a 50% return... it's a 250% return. And it's tax free, assuming it's your primary residence (up to 250k cap gains). You have to spend an obnoxious amount on costs to not have it make sense.
This is super interesting. I will do a 2024 edition.
We have been using Cloudflare health check at work for this and we have been pretty happy with this. We have this integrated with slack and opsgenie as well.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/health-checks/
There were local Palestinian magnates of sone authority in the 16th - 18th centuries CE
you can add https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co... at signoz's otel-collector which will scrape your service's endpoint periodically. If your service is down, this will give 5xx error and you can set an alert on that.

Another alternative is to use an alert to notify on a metric being absent for sometime. Both of these should work
Private Empty S3 Bucket Cost Me $1300 [video]
What is Change Data Capture (CDC) ?

Peerdb doesn't seem to inform on the core of the problem it solves, here's a reference from Debezium (mentioned in the text)

> set up and configure Debezium to monitor your databases, and then your applications consume events for each row-level change made to the database. Only committed changes are visible, so your application doesn't have to worry about transactions or changes that are rolled back.

It's good to know! This model seems to turn row changes into effectively a side-effect invocation for a queue.
Is there something special about this lecture?
Just got one of those with a double oven and induction, great so far.
Just crazy.

TLDR:

put a UUID in your bucket name always.
Assuming it's market condition based and not specific to your house, rents would easily pass along insurance rate hikes to you as well. I don't see much difference in insulation from that for renting vs. buying.
I have good reasons to believe that all this capex into GPUs will backfire. Metrics aren’t looking good for AI adoption, and growth rate is slowing down while inference and training costs are plummeting.
In a general equilibrium economy with no innovation or all innovation potential being exhausted, money demand and interest disappear. "Interest" isn't the price of time, it is the price of liquidity.

For some reason economists seem to gloss over that money doesn't abstract over just time. It abstracts over everything including location, trade partner, the specific commodity being traded and minimum quantities.

Since people involuntarily produce liquidity by bringing their goods to the market, people owning the rights to that liquidity (aka capitalists) can "reap where they haven't sown".

This leads to a paradoxical situation. Liquidity production is work like any other. In short, liquidity production demands to be compensated. Since the holders of liquidity can utilize the benefits of the liquidity services without paying they can either decide to use the liquidity benefits themselves or they can decide to monetize them by selling liquidity on the capital markets. The compensation for this liquidity service is known as risk free interest.

As I mentioned, liquidity demands to be compensated, but since the producer of liquidity does not get paid, they will eventually wisen up and cease producing liquidity in the national transaction network. This leads to production capacity in the economy being dismantled since it represents a commitment in time-commodity-quantity-person-space. Instead, future producers of liquidity await the holders of liquidity to effectively signal their demand so that they know to what production process they should commit to.

Since information acquisition is costly, it is perceived to be cheaper to avoid committing oneself or in more direct terms: interest measures the reluctance to lose control over ones capital.
Induction is notorious for warping carbon steel pans. It's supposed to be the worst option for them.
I liked the idea when I read the title. I was expecting something else though.

Maybe a map with tiny previews.

Then obviously, it could leverage some classifier behind the scenes.
> * Simple markdown-like markup language with math support for my website/blog. I did it so that I get nice SVG equations that show up without things jumping around all the time while it's rendering. https://github.com/dllu/dllup

Nice design and nice page :) I was wondering whether I should post my own take which has a set of similar requirements, too, but figured that at least currently it does not give much “productivity” but is more of a free-time activity for myself.
> I very much think of it like that.

Well, there's your problem right there.

(https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/well-theres-your-problem just in case you don't get the allusion.)

If you stopped approaching HN as a contest you might see better outcomes.

> "world building" genres like Sim City

Sim City was a non-competitive single-player game the last time I played it. That was a long time ago so maybe things have changed. But be that as it may, "game" and "competition" are not synonyms. The distinguishing characteristic of a competition is that there are necessarily winners and losers.

> I have had extremely different training than you.

Do tell. You don't have any links in your profile so you apparently want to remain anonymous, which is fine. But then you can't blame me when I draw my conclusions about you based solely on what I observe you doing here, because that is all the data I have.

> It isn't possible for you to know this.

Oh, the irony. Is your memory really so poor that you don't recall giving me a hard time for saying the exact same thing two days ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40253122

You really need to read the latest installment in my series:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/05/languages-are-theories-d...
Interesting how long it takes to get this “assistant” functionality on a local running models with llama for e.g.? It’s seems like many use cases require access to user data.
Some alternatives:

* `vifm` file manager, more powerful and performant than ranger, for those who lean towards vim keybindings: https://vifm.info/gallery.shtml

* `btop` process monitor, for those who like eye candy: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop?tab=readme-ov-file#main...
Taking a step back, was it necessary to roll your own LLM (or whatever FM) API as opposed to using an off the shelf API
And recast your wins as failures (and failures as wins) when the need so arises
Was it "I didn't understand it and/or put in the effort to understand it first" ? Nah it must be "theres a conspiracy to make it confusing so we pay more"

AWS has one of the nicer to comprehend billing systems.
All of the new versions of those suck. They're absolutely awful performance and design wise. I don't know what the hell they're doing. It's this horrible mishmash of design decisions and it isn't even good looking. You can forgive a lot of usability issues if it looks fantastic, but it looks like a white screen with some random lines of text and feels like notepad via RDP over a DSL line.
Here is a mind bending concept. Those that hold a lot of cash are resilient. But that cash came from someone else getting into debt. That's because money IS debt. Money gets created when people take out loans. That debt ends up as income to someone else.

If you hold a lot of savings, others had to get into debt to create the money that ended up in your bank account.

If EVERYONE decides to hoard cash, then the economy goes into a deflationary spiral and everyone's ability to save goes to zero. This is called the Paradox of Thrift.

Many folks on HN have huge savings accounts. Thank those that went into debt so you can have savings. They sacrificed their resilience for you to have yours.
Yeap! We're subject to a similar maximum in Portland. It was one of the aspects of government I specifically shopped for before we relocated. I did wish I'd looked more into the ever-expanding income tax we have at the city, county, and state levels but that's a different cost structure that's only significantly worse when factoring in Trump era tax reform.
The price should only go up if the cost of going green is increasing. In theory, once we hit battery stability the cost of going green will be constant. Is my analysis wrong somewhere?
The extra convenient part is that the default installation instructions are for everyone's favourite, snap.
Yep, I'm renting two servers from Hetzner; have one in Germany and another in Finland. Both cheap (€40/month) and over the few years I've been using their services, I have nothing to complain about.
“No premature generalization.”
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You’re incorrect about what that figure is.

https://tradingeconomics.com/norway/households-debt-to-incom...

That means for every 100 units of annual income, Norwegians owe 210 units in total debt. (Not total debt service payments [a flow, with unit of kr/yr], but total debt [a stock, with unit of kr].)
yah, I just recently made the purchase for BlackHole because I couldn't get the system sounds otherwise. Great little project!
I think you're missing the vibe (sarcasm).
I'm not answering your direct question but for reasons, I'm interested in Indiana farm land in the 1920s and 1930s. From a peak in 1920, price per acre was down 2/3rds and didn't fully recover until 1948.

The Great Depression started early for farmers...

https://ag.purdue.edu/commercialag/home/resource/2023/08/the...
IBM Topview had a certain charm too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView
Oh no, I would never go AWS for dedicated. Should've specified that in my comment so people don't get disappointed if they try to get that from AWS.
> The next question is: [ ... ]

Dennett has you covered there too. His book "Elbow Room: the varieties of free will worth wanting" is a must-read on this topic.
Discussion on HN [0] (298 points, 6 days ago, 110 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40203126
I have a Fjallraven coat that has a lot of down, plus their waxed G1000 material.

It's not something I'd take on an expedition, but it's fine for being outdoors below zero. You don't need the waterproof/breathable stuff quite so much at those temperatures because it's just snow.

I was out and about with the coat for several hours in -20C weather here this past winter and it did fine.
The returns might look better if you factor in imputed rent (assuming this is your primary residence). There are definitely investments with higher growth, but the (untaxed!) imputed rent is solid income over the lifetime of the house.
Off the top of my head I do not remember what the issue was (the changes to the code are from a month ago). Looking at the code now, `dockerExec` <https://github.com/Megapixel99/nodejs-k8s/blame/master/funct...> uses `child_process` so that may have something to do with it... however, as I have said in other replies, I just wanted to learn more about the inner workings of k8s and I personally learn best when I create (or recreate) something, I doubt this project will take off, but if it does I will try to fix that when the time comes.

Regardless, thank you for the feedback.
Fwiw, “what did i tell my wife we needed to get at the drug store?” is actually our household's main use case for Amazon Alexa.

Granted, you have to be home for that, but "Alexa add pickles to the shopping list" is something we're all accustomed to saying now, to the device in the kitchen. Then whoever does the shopping checks that list whenever they go out.
If there is a war you leave your house behind. If you rent you can save the difference in a foreign savings account.

the point is there is alway risk and many different situations. depending on details there are different results.
If you think offering a cloud service is at all the same as offering someone a box in a rack, I invite you to compete in the space.
That's https://mevspace.com/ but hetzner, scaleway, ovh, psychz.net, reliablesite.net etc. have similar pricing. If you increase your budget to 100 there are many, many more in Europe and the US.
I’m 44 and to this day I still use my very fist Braun electric shaver. I don’t even know the model, but it looks just like one with a blue button in the pic in the article, although the case is different and the blue is darker in mine. The only issue it has is that I have to place the connector in a very specific position or it won’t charge.

I think it’s going to outlive me.
There's a lot of truth to that, but success can be measured in different ways. Other democratic, capitalist-leaning countries have much less economic inequality. To them, that's a feature, not a bug.

The US economy of today is nothing like the US economy of the 50's and 60's where working class people could own homes, had stable jobs and could afford healthcare. To treat it like the same consistent "system" throughout the past is missing a lot of nuance.

The way economic inequality is trending today, this will all end very badly IMHO.

Edit: By total coincidence, this relevant TED talk is now on the second page of HN -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40278189
Usually the idea is to record DAW audio seperately, so when you go back and actually edit the video you're not limited to whatever horrible 64Kbps compression algo the video call uses.

Plus you'll often want to be using some sort of mixer to mix in a vocal/talk mic also.
Besides Alibaba Cloud and AWS, are there other FPGA cloud services?
for me Windows is the king in backwards compatibility. I get the sense they expend significant resources doing testing in this space and scrutinizing ABIs and APIs and all that. They don't want to disturb the developer ecosystems with bedrock changes.
Wow that is quite decent pricing actually. This makes me want to try to deploy something like llamafile/ollama or similar to fly.io+gpu for my personal on-demand llama/llm whims. (@simonw I’m looking at you— I feel like if you haven’t already done this on fly.io, that you’re probably thinking about it :) ) Seems private enough.. could throw some basic auth on top of it for me and trusted friends/family so I don’t get crazy bills. But privacy-wise with fly.io I think it’s good enough.

Only problem might be everytime it spins up to download the large model might be wasteful as far as getting charged for network/bw usage— wonder if it would be more cost-efficient to have persistent storage or just see how much time and bw it is to download on every cold start…
> I just mean that as a whole we're going to be moving back to simpler deployments, simpler architectures, and most importantly, fixed/predictable costs.

That I can definitely agree with, I just believe that's fully possible to do with cloud (for the most part, though there are certainly some head turners like the recent news that AWS was charging for forbidden attempts on private S3 buckets, which is bonkers) and cloud cost management tools.
> No less a scientist than Roger Penrose

This is argument from authority.

In Penrose's case, while his position is mildly interesting, most other scientists and philosophers interested in consciousness and mind/brain questions completely reject it.
This might be a fun way to learn Rust